Well the saga of the LOOK N560 continues......
GPS Fix Times
Still lousy, bit I've applied a hack which increases the connection speed from 9600 baud to 57600 so hunt times are improved. It is still somewhat spotty though. A few minutes ago I tried to get a lock in the back garden, waited 6 minutes - nothing. Whereas this morning I went out there and got a strong lock within 30 seconds!
This is probably not helped by the fact that the GPS cache data is deleted after a soft reset which means that the 'cold factory' lock has to be regained after a soft reset - not good news.
E2C Connectivity
I had terrible problems using this to connect the LOOX N560 to my LAN, even though all settings were correct and the connection showed as live.
I found the solution though, FSC took the brilliant decision to include in the ROM version 3.02.06401 (build: 1125) which it turns out is not WM5 AKU2.0 compatible!
The FSC site states:
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Who shall install this E2C version?
All Pocket-LOOX owner having E2C version v3.02 Build 1125 installed in ROM image. This can be included in N560 or C550 Pocket-LOOX.
The E2C v3.03 Build 1131 version provides a workaround for a known Connection Manager problem of the WM2005 operating system running AKU2. This problem does not exist on WM2005 AKU1 based Pocket PC devices. The problem is exclusive to WLAN connections, but will affect all E2C WLAN connections. Any E2C WLAN based connection, which successfully connects is NOT GUARANTEED to become recognised by the OS's built-in Connection Manager. The Connection Manager is not aware of the connection, although it is successfully established. This will result in applications like PIE and others to not work correctly.
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This is damned ridiculous and I can't believe FSC installed a duff version for the machine in ROM!
Note for reference against the next paragraph this updated version will load and install using the installer.
E2C Purchasing
In the review Jim mentioned that he was surprised that E2C Pro had to be purchased. Yes it does, but with a full commercial package (which Jim may not have had) you get a voucher which can be redeemed for 5 points in the FC store.
In that store E2C can be redeemed for two points making it effectively free. Thats the good news.
E2C Installing
The bad news is that once you've bought it and downloaded the installer it will not load on the machine!
This problem is evidently known as shown by
this thread on the FSC forums. Needless to say I've raised a Support Ticket and we'll see if I do get the file needed to get the application loaded and registered.
It looks like to resolve the issue one has to load the updated version from FSC and then use the unlock file which hopefully Support will send to me.
We'll have to see how it goes!
E2C Should it be used?
Even though Jim had no problems with E2C during the review, and I had endless problems, it seems that a lot of folks will not touch it at all, as can be seen on
this thread on FirstLOOX.org. That clearly recommends using the standard WM applet - which I must admit for me is working so far.
General
Apart from the niggles and annoyances listed so far the N560 is scoring because:
It is lightning fast - at least twice the speed of the Exec.
Incredibly light in weight and small in form, I cna now go back to using my small Vega holster
Screen is way beautiful and great for reading eBooks
As it is not a Phone Edition device theare is not the great number of processes running which means I can run WBA2, Journal Bar, etc alongside PBreeze.
So mixed pickings so far!